UNM's Model United Nations team brought home five awards at a conference in Puebla, Mexico. Among the 160 university teams and graduate programs that competed in the Harvard World Model U.N., UNM was the only school to win more than one award in the same committee.
Firefighters make progress against wind-fueled blaze CAPITAN (AP) - The strong winds driving a fire that has burned an estimated 10,000 acres of grass and brush in south-central New Mexico were dying down late Monday afternoon, allowing firefighters to make progress against the blaze.
Junior Business enterprise program Daily Lobo: What is the business enterprise program? Michelle Gallegos: It's kind of complicated. It's specifically for blind people. DL: How long have you been blind? MG: I was born completely blind. I was born really early.
UNM sports physician Chris McGrew sets an example for his patients. He treats people from ages 7 to 70 who want to stay active. On his 50th birthday, McGrew ran Florida's Grayton Beach Seaside Half Marathon with no advance preparation, finishing in sixth place for his age group and 77th overall.
Jerusalem Post correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh will speak to UNM students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today. Toameh is an Arab-Israeli journalist who reports from the West Bank and Gaza. He was invited to speak on the conflict by Stand With Us, a nonprofit.
Rep. Steve Pearce met with students in the National Society of Black Engineers pre-college program Saturday. Pearce talked about the importance of using education to rise to the top in a forum discussion at UNM. Pearce asked students why it's important to get an education, what they were going to do with it and how they're working on achieving it.
Students can expect to pay an extra $262.79 for a year's tuition and fees next semester. The Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved a 5.75 percent increase in tuition and fees for next year. President David Schmidly recommended a 2.85 percent tuition increase on top of the state-mandated 2 percent increase established by the New Mexico Legislature.
In the upcoming April issue of Fortune's Small Business Magazine, Rio Rancho ranked 83rd in the magazine's "100 best places to live and launch." The top spot on the list was rewarded to Bellevue, Wash. Georgetown, Texas; Burford, Ga.; Marina del Rey, Calif.
Kris Gebhard of Dartmouth College practices before performing in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invite preliminaries held in the SUB on Thursday. The UNM slam team is hosting the event. Check out DailyLobo.com for video related to this event.
The UNM Smoke-Free Campus Coalition held an open-mic forum Thursday, allowing people to voice their opinions on creating designated smoking areas on campus. Monica Patten, of the American Lung Association of New Mexico, said the point of the forum was not to pit smokers and nonsmokers against each other, but to identify solutions and ideas.
Kelly Baca Sophomore Broadcast journalism I think he should. I think that it was kind of a harsh punishment. He didn't do it as an act of hate, and he made that very clear. Tayler Pearson Sophomore Philosophy I would say no. But if he believes as strongly as he says he believes in the reason for why he tore it down, then of course he would want do that.
In Thursday's Daily Lobo, the story "Experimenting with change" should have said the performance by Yoda's House will be at 8 p.m. on Saturday and costs $9 for students.
A jury found student Peter Lynch guilty of criminal damage to property Wednesday. In September, Lynch removed a Mexican flag from a pole outside Scholes Hall, tore it and took it to the Air Force ROTC office. Bernalillo County Metropolitan Judge Clyde DeMersseman gave Lynch a six-month deferred sentence.
UNM isn't a top dream school, according to a survey published in the Princeton Review. The survey, released last week, polled about 8,000 college applicants and 1,500 parents of applicants. Prospective college students named Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., as the top dream school in the country, while parents voted Princeton as their No.
March 27 A UNM Police officer went to Popejoy Hall after a UNM employee reported that his backpack was stolen. The employee said he worked in the sound booth and left his backpack unattended. He told the officer three skateboarders had loitered on stage. He said he saw one of the skateboarders take the backpack while exiting Popejoy.
The state's Department of Workforce Solutions ruled March 12 that there is probable cause to believe two UNM Police officers have been discriminated against because of their sexual orientation. The ruling comes seven months after Lt. Michael Young and Cmdr.
Albuquerque jail to not hold ICE inmates (AP) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decided against using a Downtown Albuquerque jail to hold its detainees, an agency spokeswoman said. Most of the detainees who would have been placed in the Regional Correctional Center will be held in El Paso, Texas, Leticia Zamarripa said.
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